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Awards to recognize and reward innovations and successes from across Wi-Fi ecosystem

Singapore and London – July 23rd 2015 – The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the industry association focused on driving the next generation Wi-Fi experience, has announced that the WBA Wi-Fi Industry Awards 2015 are now open for entry. The awards recognize Wi-Fi innovations by operators, vendors, device manufacturers and innovations within the ecosystem.

The Wi-Fi Industry Awards are open to the entire industry and judged independently by a panel of esteemed analysts and industry experts. The awards will be presented to leading carriers in the Wi-Fi space at the gala awards dinner and networking event at the Wi-Fi Global Congress in San Jose in October 2015 at the Corinthian Grand Ballroom in downtown San Jose.

Leading Cities from around the world join together to enable the vision for Connected Cities

Singapore – 23rd July, 2015 – The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the industry association that champions the development of the converged wireless broadband ecosystem has announced the establishment of a Connected City Advisory Board. The Board aims to help deliver the vision of Connected Cities being pursued by a growing number of cities from around the world. It provides an exclusive platform for City Managers and CIOs to knowledge-share and create best practices with their counterparts in other cities and also determine the best way to leverage public-private partnerships.

Building on the recent thought-leadership dialogue and roundtable discussions hosted by the WBA with a number of CIOs and senior officials from leading cities including Barcelona, London, New York, San Francisco, San Jose and Singapore, the Board will continue to focus on development of the Connected City plans and blue prints, creation of public-private ecosystems and collaboration mechanisms for resource contributions.

Announces Wi-Fi Global Congress to be held as part of next year’s IFB in Liverpool, UK

London Stock Exchange & Singapore – June 24th, 2015 – The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the industry association focused on driving the next generation Wi-Fi experience, today has announced that the Wi-Fi Global Congress (WGC) 2016 will be held in Liverpool as part of the International Festival for Business (IFB) from 27th – 30th June 2016.

The WBA’s Wi-Fi Global Congress is leading the field in showcasing current technological developments and innovation in the unlicensed and Wi-Fi industry, including Carrier and Public Wi-Fi developments and will be instrumental in providing a platform for wireless connectivity at the IFB event.

London, UK & Singapore – 18 May 2015 – The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the industry association focused on driving the next generation Wi-Fi experience, today welcomed 22 new members that have joined its efforts to drive the growth of next generation Wi-Fi networks and services, such as the WBA’s Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) initiative.

With Mobile World Congress a distant memory, the hot topics from the show are still making headlines. Voice over LTE and Wi-Fi are key themes for 2015 but the highest profile topic remains ubiquitous wireless connectivity and how different radio interfaces will combine to provide this.

News has come hard and fast from the major mobile technology event Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, and there has been an ongoing theme – the progress of Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi has quite clearly been the technology to watch during the event and for good reasons.

The WBA has been active in several ways to convey the message of Wi-Fi at the event, but luckily we found some time to review on-going developments and announcement.
A quick summary of our activities:

London, UK – 19th February 2015 – The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the industry association focused on driving the next generation Wi-Fi® experience, and the GSMA today announced that they will deploy Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) and Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint, based on the Wi-Fi Alliance Hotspot 2.0 specification, on the Wi-Fi network at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona, Spain from 2-5 March. The network, which will also be supported by the Wi-Fi Alliance®, will allow attendees using Passpoint-enabled iOS and Android from participating mobile operators to automatically roam onto the network using secure credentials and also benefit from a secure Wi-Fi connection.

The Aptilo solution gives Telia the edge in bringing seamless, secure Wi-Fi services to the Lugnet Ski Arena and throughout the city of Falun. More than 200,000 visitors, journalists and skiers are expected to attend the Championships. Aptilo’s robust platform is purpose-built to manage the high volume traffic anticipated for an event of this magnitude. For FIS, this can mean 30,000+ users on the network at one time.